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This guidance is aimed at records managers and financial managers in government. It covers the following categories of financial records: bank accounts, expenditures, ledgers, receipts and revenue, salaries and related documents, stores and services, other accountable financial documents.

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This guidance is aimed at Departmental Record Officers and staff in central government departments and agencies who handle records relating to the management of information. It is unlikely that any information management records will be selected for permanent preservation.

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This guidance is aimed at Departmental Record Officers, Finance Directors and Internal Audit staff. It covers all internal audit records no longer required for business purposes, which are subject to a formal appraisal process to determine whether they fall within the criteria of selection for permanent preservation.

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Parliamentary papers copies are likely to be selected for preservation in The National Archives only if within assemblies including other unique papers, or if significantly annotated as part of the policy re/consideration process.

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This guidance is aimed at Departmental Record Officers and staff in press offices or public relations/communications units of government departments and agencies. It covers records in all media generated by press offices and related functional areas.

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The following guidance is aimed at Departmental Record Officers and their staff and also staff in government departments and agencies who have responsibilities for project management. It covers records in all media generated by all kinds of projects.

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This guidance is targeted at Local Government Officers who handle public records, some of which are permanently deposited in local institutions under the Public Records Act (PRA) 1958 s.4(1). As well as public records to be permanently preserved it provides disposal details on those that are not.

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Government departments preparing records for transfer to The National Archives should review the access requirements of those records in order to identify material that: should be retained, should be transferred to The National Archives as closed, or as open.